COMING ELECTIONS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1596, 18 June 1887, Page 3

COMING ELECTIONS.

F ; TO THB HEITOR. Sir,-Amidst the gene's I rejoicings in ■■ conneo* ion with the Queen’s Jubilee, has anyone time to reflect, that we are on the -/ eVe of a general election f It seems to Vo ¥ a very contagious disease this -loyatj. . What sort of feeli gisit I Ic m imagine <r ” the feelings of H<ir Majesty, and her friends andsvsomtes on euch an occasion, and sympathise with their rejoicing, but I cannot understand how so many thousands of people should get so excited over an event in a person's life with whom they ' kpve only a hearsay acquaintance. It appears as if men were afraid being outstripped by their fellows in foil We sometimes hear the peace, progress;and prosperity of the reign suggested aa an •xcuse for.the hubbuo, but how can men ; who deny tba* women have sufficient Ibraios to enable them to exercise the franchise persu.d* themselves that a woman Could in i-ny " iy influence the pence, progress, mid * of the world I I mean nothing ucrogatory to Her Majesty In saying she is a woman; A woman in greater than a queen, although it is still ! the fashion of the world to give people Bucb nicknames to f ivor the few by deceiving the many. However, we are not ■ t very busy, and s general holiday wont do much barm. Whan we get over this flattery of a nominal sovereign I hops Working men will not forget that the ballot box is the reel monarch of the British Empire,: and .that the dissolution of our Parliament gives us another chance of moving onward, if we have only soaso to pluck the fruit that dangles within our E, Nominally we have a House of J isentatives. Are we to make it real by'* choosing from amongst ourselves a number ol representatives io proportion to the number we represent in the community 1 Hitherto we hive allowed our■elves to be carried away with the ■opbislry that blue blood and classical education were accessary credentials for legislators. Ate we satisfied that we have had enough of such rubbish I Are ..we now. able to discern that men don’t oairyr s their ; brains in = their pockets ? Although we were to choose for our lawmakers the most igiaorant yokels they i could hotadd to the concision ef .our . Witness the little comedy of five . ! Supreme ’Court judges, and five ot the . most learned of our learned friends, cudin gelling their brains a:whole week to discover whether it was lawful to .hang one of the vlleet scoundrels that ever blotted the"fair face of creation, and after they lutd; made the precious, discovery that to hang the wrefeh would be contrary to law, > Judge Johnston paid ,that the taw might koinetipnifls defeat j ust ice, end that it was kv l®gisl«|lor« ; to amend fj'tfpe M Pht ( e«ide . less tbaji’a dojwp of ourjegislators I presume Judge Jphnktpo has.more.brains than all the test' pot. together, and it cannot bf ■. ..mid j lhats.-tbe few , exceptions have all endeavufad fp, do.their best.for the public tjood. • ;i will not presume to say what aif 19,,h.ut 1 will say that the laws ,o£ a nation ought to be certain rules and regulations that the .people of a nation agree to live by, drawn in n manner that they could,be, understood by any persons -Cf 1 ordinary intelligence. If a person should pvjnt to go from *oy part of •''Europe-to aihy other p art hi }can by procuring a ■ little' -publication—Bradshaw’s 'Railway end Steamboat Guide—discover " tedte be is to go,f aind the time he will i 1 his desiiination. " Now we ■ i Wipt to Jet our Greek and Latin legislators ; Greece,- «nd’ to elect a set of plain, • im&lvigenty honest men to make a bonfire 1 "id! all)precedents and ‘digests of law* and • give' us io plain English a coda as inUUigible as Bradshaw’s Guide, The administration of euch a code would be very inexpeosive, ■ and every man could be own lawyer ; indeed, litigation become almost a thing of the -past, and our learned friends would be , able to devote, their time* their talents, , r . and their learning to honest, useful oocupaV tlons, ,T will continue the subject in )/ another letter. H-l «m, , - . WoBkiNQ Man.